D. Wayne Lukas finished 1-2 in Oaklawn's Rebel Stakes Saturday, as first Oxbow ran down the leaders and then Will Take Charge ran down Oxbow for the win by a head.

Lukas also has Channel Isle in Saturday's Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., and Titletown Five in Sunday's Sunland Derby at Sunland Race Track in Sunland Park, N.M.

Lukas, at 77, not only would win his fifth Kentucky Derby but be the oldest trainer to capture the race.

"I don't know what we'll do next," he said Sunday, referring to his Rebel double-play. "I will keep them separated. If I had to make a decision today, which I don't and I won't, the Arkansas Derby and the Blue Grass are obvious."

Stock rising: Den's Legacy, who finished third in the Rebel after seconds in two Santa Anita preps, is just the kind of hard-knocking horse who finishes third or fourth in the Kentucky Derby at a huge price.

Stock falling: Super Ninety Nine, in finishing fifth as the Rebel favorite, showed that mud and a favorable pace scenario did make a difference in his impressive Southwest victory. Trainer Bob Baffert told the Daily Racing Form that the Oaklawn track was too deep for Super Ninety Nine, who will run next in the Santa Anita Derby against stablemate Flashback.

Treasury Bill (eighth as the second choice) hardly was on the Derby scene long enough for his stock to fall. Delhomme (eased as the third choice) suffered a breathing obstruction and is off the Derby trail, said owner WinStar Farm President Elliott Walden.

Derby points: This weekend's preps are the last where the winner gets 50 points, the number doubling for the March 30 Florida, Louisiana and UAE derbys. Churchill spokesman Darren Rogers, who did much of the numbers crunching as the track created the points system, believes 40 remains a good number to be safely in the 20-horse field. But he notes that a horse like Shanghai Bobby, with 24 points going into the Florida Derby, could already have enough, depending on what transpires the next few weeks.

Rogers stresses that looking at past races under the current system is cursory at best, because some stakes don't exist anymore (Santa Anita's once-important San Rafael), others have taken on more importance (Oaklawn's Rebel, Santa Anita's Sham) and stakes have moved around on the schedule, making an identical prep sequence impossible in some instances. Still, it's the only way to compare. And it's fun to look at how past Derby fields might have been impacted.

Last year, all things staying the same, would have seen Grade I CashCall Futurity winner Liaison (15 points), sprint champion Trinniberg (0) and Illinois Derby winner Done Talking (0) out in favor of My Adonis (22), Gung Ho (20) and Teeth of the Dog (20). Would anybody have noticed?

The 2010 field could have swapped out five horses, including Illinois Derby winner American Lion (who presumably would have gone in another prep race with Illinois Derby not being included), the top filly Devil May Care and ultimate fourth-place finisher Make Music For Me.

In would have been Florida Derby runner-up Pleasant Prince (who wouldn't have needed to run back in both the Blue Grass and Derby Trial in an unsuccessful effort to get enough earnings), as well as the second-place horses in the Santa Anita Derby (Setsuko) and Louisiana Derby (A Little Warm).

Arguably the best true distance horses to be excluded from the Derby on graded earnings were future Grade I winner Rock Hard Ten and Eddington, who finished a distant second and third to Kentucky Derby winner Smarty Jones in the 2004 Preakness. With Rock Hard Ten disqualified from second to third in the Santa Anita Derby and Eddington third in the Wood (losing by a total of a half-length), both would have made the Derby under the points system.

Among those who possibly would have been excluded: 2-year-old champion Action This Day (who broke his maiden in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was no better than fourth in his three Derby preps); Juvenile runner-up Minister Eric (who prepped in three allowance races) and Champagne winner Birdstone (who had a compromised prep campaign, finished eighth in the Derby but then won the Belmont and Travers).

Derby sweepstakes: America's Best Racing, the marketing arm of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and Jockey Club, has launched a sweepstakes where the winner chooses between "revelry" and "refined" for his or her ultimate Derby experience for four people. Revelry is four infield admissions, with the trip including t-shirt and fanny packs, van ride transportation to the track and motel. Refined is Millionaires Row, designer attire, limo and hotel. Here's the catch: You get a $5,000 betting voucher with revelry and $1,000 voucher for refined. Airfare and two rooms are included in both packages.